I have an instructor who is copying and pasting text from a Word document into her forums. She is NOT doing this using the HTML editor but rather just opening the Word document and using copy and paste. Everything looks fine when she saves the forum posting. However, when she (or her students) goes back to the forum posting, she sees the html code.
Any ideas on what she can do (rather than not using Word)?
~Cynthia
Does it help if she clicks on the "clean word HTML" button on the editor? It is on the top bar, third from the end.
atw
atw
I also have a user that has this problem. Each day a "Student Bulletin" is produced in Word. This is then copied and pasted into a new News forum discussion each day.
Sometimes code appears as it does for Cynthia. Using clean Word HTML works for this but the bulletin often has a table of sports fixtures and the clean Word HTML corrupts the table and terminates the document in the middle of the table. This has the knock on effect of disturbing the front page -some of the blocks then appear in the middle of the News item.
When I look into the code I find a huge numbers of empty <span> and </span> tags. The numbers of these seem to increase each time I toggle the "view HTML source".
Sometimes code appears as it does for Cynthia. Using clean Word HTML works for this but the bulletin often has a table of sports fixtures and the clean Word HTML corrupts the table and terminates the document in the middle of the table. This has the knock on effect of disturbing the front page -some of the blocks then appear in the middle of the News item.
When I look into the code I find a huge numbers of empty <span> and </span> tags. The numbers of these seem to increase each time I toggle the "view HTML source".
My previous submission is an example of a copy and paste from word. It causes the same problem on this site.
When I first uploaded it, the "edit/delete/reply" links were actually within the table but I edited it to take out most of the irrelevant information and the table seemed to fix itself somehow.
Any clues as to where the problem lies Word or the HTML editor? (or both). Solutions would be most welcome.
John
When I first uploaded it, the "edit/delete/reply" links were actually within the table but I edited it to take out most of the irrelevant information and the table seemed to fix itself somehow.
Any clues as to where the problem lies Word or the HTML editor? (or both). Solutions would be most welcome.
John
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Sports Fixtures for Weds 17th Sept
|
Team |
Opposition |
Start |
Venue |
Transport |
Competition |
Meet |
|
Football 1st |
COLLYERS |
2.30pm |
COLLYERS |
MINIBUS |
LEAGUE |
1.10PM IN SPORTS CENTRE |
|
Football 2nd Second Years |
CITY |
2PM |
WATERHALL |
MINIBUS |
FRIENDLY |
1.10PM IN SPORTS CENTRE |
|
Football 2nd First Years |
TRAINING |
1.30PM |
BHASVIC |
|
|
1.30PM IN SPORTS CENTRE |
|
Ladies Football |
STEYNING |
2PM |
BHASVIC |
|
FRIENDLY |
1.15PM IN SPORTS CENTRE |
|
Netball 1st |
TRAINING |
1.30PM |
TENNIS COURTS |
|
|
1.20 PM IN SPORTS CENTRE |
|
Netball 2nd |
TRAINING |
1.30PM |
TENNIS COURTS |
|
|
1.20PM IN SPORTS CENTRE |
|
Men’s Basketball |
TRAINING |
1.30PM |
|
This is not going to help you, but I avoid word whenever I can for just this reason. I find the markup that it adds to the text to cause all kinds of problems! I think I was copying and pasting from excel and having better luck, but I usually use an html editor when I can. Maybe someone else will come along with some better advice!
atw
atw
ATW -
I am writing her now to ask her to try the clean Word button. Thanks,
~Cynthia
I am writing her now to ask her to try the clean Word button. Thanks,
~Cynthia
I have found the same, so I copy the Word information into notepad so it strips the code, save and then copy and paste into moodle.
Cutting and pasting via Notepad is definitely the cleanest way I've found.